Monday, Monday.... Not

I slept in... not, did some cleaning instead and later decided to do some walking.

Took a brolly... hence no rain, alas!

On the way to BraWoPark I got hungry and then it struck me, oh nooo.... my route takes me to...

But luckily they´re closed on Mondays.
Oh, no, it´s Tuesday!

Guess what I did?

I could resist, I stayed on the other side of the road and got some fish-cakes!

And lucky thing I did.
I had a glass of black salsify, took some, put them in the pan and later added some Parmigiano Reggiano.
Oh my goodness, that cheese stinks like real bad!!! I tried but in the end the bin took it all. I had a fish-cake.
Now what do I do with those black salsify??? Jamie, where are you now??? ;-)

At least 635kcal burned in nearly 14km, that makes 235% - it´s a start and enough for today.

It´s Raining Again

I managed to get the short rain on my way to my company's place.

And I mean that in a positive way, I love rain.

Good thing: I did not get lost on the way to the interview, I did not drop the card in the car park.
Not so good I don´t want and likely will not get offered the job, I´m pretty sure of that.
Would be limited to one year, too.

So, the rest of today and tomorrow I´m off work again and then H will be back and we´ll see what to do.
Had a longer chat with the boss, too. He told me the person responsible for all this even claimed she didn´t know anything about the situation. Which very clearly is a lie.
The higher up some persons come the deeper down they kick.

Muddy. That´s all I can say. Chapter closed, rant over.

Hey, at least it was raining :-)

Baby Steps

I have to get up on some horse, right?

After having had a safe job for 16 years I sure have forgotten how to sell myself - not that I was ever good at it anyways.
Too honest, too modest, "bad" upbringing here, sorry to say.

The profile is not mine anyways, HP said let´s see it as having a nice coffee.

I have to park in a car park, that alone gives me the creeps, huh?
I´ll drop the card, will be too close to get out, gaaaah... never happened but there is always a first, huh?
I will be on cam and you all get to see it, LOL.

Nah. Here it is:

If I could choose... I´d like to go to the Zoo right now.
But, alas. My lips are a mess, thanks winter.
Really, why did that had to happen. Who cares for teamleader now.

Baby steps. Comfort zone and such.

And an excuse to post pics of the beautiful carousel :-)
Off to the interview soon.

Winter-Art

The city promoted an winterly-art afternoon this Sunday, plus the shops are open, so I went cause...

Job-interview, I needed something proper to wear.

I HATE shopping for clothes, deeply.

Especially in winter.

Art? I was really looking for said diversified cultural programme but all I found was this:

How disappointing, good thing I didn´t invite family over for this!
Some things this city I love so much is just not good at, reminded me of the most boring kite-festival ever...

Finally

Uups, sorry, if I gave you this earworm now. Sorry.
Reminds me.
I lost the DVD "Queen of the Desert" over the years moving places!! :-(



It´s so dang cold but we braved up, as you can see - you can not even walk holding hands cause if one falls he´d tear the other down as well!

But... be positive, right, esp after I lost the job and I lost it THAT nasty way...

And I won´t follow that stupid still-colleague (cause boss keeps us all safe, no need to fear yet)... I won´t reflect on the job just on...

We went... after we visited...

Well, you know.
We missed the day, New Year´s Eve he steps off and walks around the whole town, not just the city!
He goes to all places like the PTB even (where they "make" the time for Europe)... he checks if everybody is ok and safely in his bed, yes, our...

Then we made another try to visit Schadt´s.
J was there and she was not happy.
She´s the only one left, all new guys working there are... , just work.
She said she´s going on vacation. Pssst, don´t say loud, the Caribbean. She wants to keep it down... gossip, how sad is that.
She also said upon me loosing my job (at age 45!) that when she was "young" with 42 she had to struggle a lot to get a job again (she´s in her late 50s but you don´t sense or see that :-)..).
Well, that didn´t really help!
Or did it?
She said, remember the story of the stork trying to eat the frog? I was the frog and strangled the stork :-)

Finally. I have to fight for my place to be!

(Camera) Faces

I once read most people don´t like to see their face on pictures because they are mirror inverted.
I know Ingo hates I avoid the camera so much but oh-no´s how do I look like?!

I get the "camera face" the moment I see one pointing at me, I can´t help it.

Here´s at least proof I wear sunnies:

Just look at the feet. Like a nervous kiddo...

How about you, do you like to get your pic taken?

Here we go for a proper shot, all by Ingo:

Sure miss this view.

Crikey, I have the off today and the secretary calls me shortly after 8 am.
I was at the PC and all, but why do they assume I get up "early" when I have a day off?!

But glad she called.
I´m hardly in the company´s place so I near to never see the people, I have no faces to the names.
I thought HP is the small, casual guy, heck, no!
After some tries to describe she finally found pictures and huhhhh. HP is the tall one wearing a suit!
That would´ve been some adventure without this piece of knowledge come Monday when I´m supposed to meet him for a job-interview! ;-)
An interview I don´t expect anything from but the practice.

Chapter Closed

We waited a lot today, teamleader was on the phone a lot as well.
In the end it turned out no one wants to pay for me so finally I packed up.
My project? Who cares...

As did the VW-guys, they move to another place.
Teamleader? No one knows. No one seems to care, either. His customer is sick and probably has no idea what´s going on.

Luckily I needed a large book to transport the Stunned Emu-cards to scan.
By chance the title was "how death entered the world". Thought maybe teamleader wants to read it, so I needed a second book as large. Got Ajahn Brahm on how the elephant forgot about luck.
He took both, maybe it helps him to cope. The cards are home safely anyways.
His girlfriend is very alert, the doctors have no clue.
I feel bad leaving him behind.

Boss said we´ll find something - I´m supposed to be in on Monday.

Crazy, I hate the driving, but after such a long row of years I kinda appreciated the time to myself, will miss that.

Long time no see, I guess:

Pic taken from KFC. I just needed some "comfort"-food and there is none nearby us anyways (thankfully, LOL).
Guess my car is an ironic guy, he told me to fill him up.
I walk to work for now, so I wanted the tank only half full, this was the outcome:

Seems he´s also optimistic, seeing the glass tank more than half full ;-)

Unlike that ###-colleague, who wrote a more than dramatic e-mail to all colleagues/customers in which he recapped his looooong 8 years, inviting everyone to cake and all, having wet eyes, a true drama queen...
Well, I left after my 16 years with my laurel teamleader and I got at ALDI...

And with this my first work-chapter is closed.
I hope boss finds something interesting, not in Hannover and that I can keep my work-hours.
So far it´s Monday 09:00 am! Gah.

To some: Happy Australia Day, despite the drama at Swan River leaving you without the fireworks there...

Addendum: Got a job interview on Monday, my company is quick.
Don´t expect much, having read the profile, but let´s see... Would be Wolfsburg again.

I Got It (Back Then)

Why do I look that sweaty, why those oooold glasses, huh?
(I still have them btw and even can and occasionally do use them at home, did today, wearing, I admit, a face mask...)
Probably you recognise the curtains of the cabin, right?

Wrong. Kinda. We have the same in our "new" cabin, too.

Oh. And. No. I haven´t seen a surgeon. The pic is a bit over 10 years old, that was Christmas 2006 in cabin #65.
No aircon, toilet, shower, but we were happy :-)
It was stinkin` hot. (Bliss)

Yes. I remembered that pic kinda (OK, I was browsing through Perth-pics as I was bored filing the new ones, mine hopefully still to be ALL recovered in DOS by Ingo...)
Knock on wood.
The surprise is hopefully a good one aka job goes on till June with Teamleader by my side.

By now I cannot even say what´s more important to me.
Teamleader or work.
He did a very good job in convincing me all will turn out well, no matter which way.
I would miss him!
It´s a lie. Men and women can be (just) friends.

A tad nervous about the outcome.
Sorry. But kinda hard for me, I try to make it good. Funny. Connect with fun times.
So I can say haaaa, pfft. No matter how the outcome will be.
I´m chicken.

Is Bob My Uncle?

Being home today I got productive, finally.

And braved up - got the ladder out and... ta-daaa:

I just couldn´t leave it in the cabin, right?

Making space for said ladder I "found" this, sorry birds, better... well..

My best find, though...
You remember the bag I got, the one Ingo then bought also cause... sooo unbelieveably practical, right?
To kinda mark mine I got a Perth-keyring.
My name was nowhere to be found, the bag is so ultra-cool, it was the same shop....

I got "Bob", cause Bob's your uncle, right?
Bob broke, I had no bill, but got a new one.
Bob works, but Perth skyline crumbles up, aw, well.

Under the swing I found this Braunschweig bag and couldn´t believe it!

A tad smaller but the exact same principle inside out!

And I must´ve had it since ages, too, cause...

"Et kütt, wie et kütt." That´s the second basic Law of Cologne, meaning "don´t be afraid of the future"..
Wow. When last time was I in Cologne? 2012!
Maybe in bags we´re a tad advanced, haha...

But is Bob my uncle, I now wonder?

It Takes A While

Usually I start driving to work at 05:12 and it takes 30 minutes.
Today I was supposed to come in "later".

07:12 I took off - well, a tad later as the car wouldn´t start at first.
It took me twice the time, so much traffic!

Tomorrow I have to take off on plus hours and be in at 07:00 Thursday, hopefully a decision has been made by then, work-wise!

T and I had some serious, some fun talk,.. and went to ALDI.
And since I was still too lazy in the cold to make healthy food... see pic above. I was hungry on the way home and KFC in Germany is still new and yummy.

Way over 10 weeks and VW still hasn´t decided on me, crazy.

To The Brave

Browsing through the pics Ingo took I found this.
This firefighter is not in the calendar - he should´ve taken his clothes off and pose, don´t you think?

I certainly wasn´t brave enough to ask ;-)
And reckon it wouldn´t really have been a need for Ingo, at least he didn´t ask, either.

This one would probably strip...

...off his heavy work-shoes.

These two have my highest respect, in the sense of the word high itself!

Yes, high, high up there are two men, one leaning forward.
I know they´re secured, yet if freaked me out, not only a little.
To the brave!

Now off to work soon. Am forced to start way later than usual until the situation is cleared.
Means more traffic, less parking, gahhhh.

Getting Back

Monday is bakery-day, so I put on my sneakers and braved the cold, so to say.
Crikey, bread is up from €1,85 to whopping €2!

Having walked to our grocery store every day in Madeley, having done all the walking in Perth & co I really had to concentrate the first few streets where to look before crossing.
But reckon I´m back at it, even the -2C is ok, kinda.

But nice is different, no?

Please cross your fingers I find out about my job tomorrow.
I really wanna get back...

Does It count?

I don´t know what´s wrong.
Got up, did the dishes, prepared brekky and lunch.

And gave away all my digested food to the fellow loo.
And again.

I´m cold, I´m dizzy.

Ingo is fine, he went to work.

Can it be "just" stress?

Will call and sign sick for today.
I mean. Dizzy and puking and driving a car.
Or, as Bro´d put it... I run away from troubles?

But this is real :-(

I´m never sick!! And it´s only 07:02...
Can "fear" cause this or am I just sick for once?

Addendum.
Teamleader thinks it´s stress.
And they still fight to keep me.
And his girlfriend is still fighting, too.
Some things in life...